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Monday, September 21, 2009
Why Atheists Kill People
47 comments:
- me said...
"Atheism is a disease of the soul, before it becomes an error of the understanding"
Plato - 21/9/09 4:42 pm
I can almost guarantee this comment will never show up on your blog, but here I go anyway.
Do you find it at all ironic that you attribute death and immorality to atheists when religion has inspired just as much (if not, more) death and destruction?
The Inquisition? Jihad? The Crusades? Ethnic cleansing all over the world in the name of Religion? Raping little boys?
Ringing any bells?
That doesn't even account for the roughly 3 million plus people that God personally dispatched in the bible.
The source of your morals is itself highly immoral; I'd rather take my morals from common sense and experience. - 21/9/09 6:56 pm
- Anagnostis said...
"If there is no God, everything is permitted" - Dostoyevsky
- 21/9/09 9:03 pm
it is sad when men try to be like God, slaying millions for what they believe to be unclean in a great flood.
- 21/9/09 9:19 pm
- Fr Ray Blake said...
I had about thirty comments from atheists, most saying Hitler was a Catholic, what evidence is there that he believed what the Catholic Church teaches?
- 21/9/09 9:42 pm
- Fr Ray Blake said...
The comments originate from here
an atheist website. - 21/9/09 9:51 pm
- Unknown said...
Heh. Typical Christian dullard who wants to find some outgroup to blame for mass killings, who thinks that morality can only come from the Sweet Baby Jesus, and whose only interest in Hitler is the No True Scotsman Fallacy.
To Christians, atheists are somebody easy to hate and revile ... in public. In private, they're probably adding the homosexuals, Jews and immigrants. - 21/9/09 9:52 pm
- Independent said...
If Christ be not risen then our faith is vain, let us eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we die". If there is no God then we are all just chemical reactions of no moral significance. In such circumstances what does it matter if people suffer, people die, people behave in any way they choose?
The Lion should be aware that what he is criticising is not religion but the use to which it is sometimes put. The Inquisition - operating like any other tribunal at the time and in Spain being used as an instrument of state to secure a uniform country; the Crusades -a noble enterprise marred by some ignoble men intent on loot rather than safeguarding Christian Holy places from Moslem occupation; ethnic cleansing - sometimes but not always using religion as a demarcation and being not about religion but about power. As for raping small boys I can think of no religion that enjoins such a practice, and where it occurs it is condemned.
As for taking morals from common sense, since no man is an island you are forced upon the wisdom of the past which is Christian in England and which to a diminishing extent conditions the society which conditions you. - 21/9/09 10:03 pm
Hitler was certainly not a Catholic, if anything he was Political Darwinist.
- 21/9/09 10:43 pm
- gemoftheocean said...
But capitalism ISN'T evil! It's not an extreme. Otherwise I'd agree with you. Socialism is just communism without sticking a gun in your face.
- 22/9/09 2:55 am
- Francis said...
Fr. Ray,
I think that many so-called atheists are believers deep down.
They just bear a grudge against a God that they think has let them down.
The ranting and raving gives the game away. If they really didn't believe, they wouldn't care enough to comment. - 22/9/09 3:23 am
- Physiocrat said...
Atheism is part of the Enlightenment legacy. And if you look at the Englightenment, you will see that it can be traced back to NeoPlatonism, a Gnostic movement. It started when the texts of Hermes Trismegistus, which came from a library in Constantinople, were purchased by one of the Medicis and translated. There is a chain that seems to run through people including Giodarno Bruno, Dr Dee, Francis Bacon and some of the founders of the Royal Society including Newton, and the Freemasons, established in 1717.
Atheism is not what it seems.
Many of the movers of the French Revolution were freemasons, rationalists who believed in the rule of Reason, which turned out to mean religious persecution, the Terror, the Vendee massacre (175,000 died in 1794) and twenty years of war in Europe. - 22/9/09 4:05 am
- berenike said...
Heehee. Am tickled. :-D
Is The Lion real, or is he a spoof comment? He's certainly completed your point :-D - 22/9/09 7:15 am
- Crux Fidelis said...
One thing I've found on talkboards (notably Guardian Unlimited Talk) is that you very rarely get a reasoned argument with the atheists who post there. Hank above is typical. What you get is venom, vituperation and vilification plus an overwhelming sense of their own intellectual superiority. Jo Brand said recently that what she disliked about Christians was their smugness. Funnily enough, that's what I get from the internet atheists.
- 22/9/09 7:57 am
- Anagnostis said...
(Sorry Father - I needed to sharpen my pencil a little; the following's better)
Hitler's "Catholicism" is an absurd straw man, which the most cursory familiarity with his beliefs and attitudes places beneath serious attention.
It is undoubtedly true that "religion" has provided the occasion for horrible crimes and very ugly attitudes. "Religion" becomes toxic to the extent that it functions like an "ideology"; ideology becomes lethal to the extent that it functions like religion; ideological religion and "eschatological ideology" are blood brothers.
Nevertheless, it's undeniable that the sheer scale of atheistically driven criminality has resulted in a corpse count (to put it crudely) that dwarfs every other manifestation of inhumanity combined. A contributory factor is undoubtedly the pathological inability of its partisans to acknowledge or understand that their implacable appetite for stoning "religion" is indulged within the frailest glass-house imaginable; this is the kind of blindness only unreasoning, unself-critical hate can foster.
The litmus of true Christianity is the extent to which we love and forgive our enemies. - 22/9/09 8:13 am
- Independent said...
\hitler was baptised as a Catholic, Stalin was baptised as an Orthodox, Karl Marx was circumcised as a Jew. So what? People do not always remain in the faith of their fathers and these three, together with many others certainly did not.
- 22/9/09 9:07 am
- Physiocrat said...
Gem, I know this is wandering off the topic, but please think about what the term "Capitalism" actually means. What is Capital?
As ask the question because these terms are used without being defined, to the point that they are useless, worse still, absolutely misleading, in a debating situation.
The Catholic Church's position is clearly set out in Caritas in Veritate. I have summarised it here
This too suffers from the use of the term without definition but the overall message is clear. - 22/9/09 10:00 am
A few pieces of text from Hitlerś Mein Kampf prove he was actually a Catholic. Haha. I can easily prove that Charles Darwin himself didn't believe in evolution by natural selection and that Richard Dawkins is in fact NOT atheist. It's fairly easy. Just cut and paste a few citations from their works out of the proper contexts. If you look carefully you can even prove that Hitler in fact was a crypto-Jew.
I am a Russian myself and I am amazed how Richard Dawkins always managed to ignore the crimes of Russina atheists like Lenin and Stalin. He was pointed to them at numerous lectures, in books and papers. But still maniacally persists in the weird idea that Stalin did not kill in the name of atheism. It's an extraordinary unreason. Lenin himself wrote "The more religious we kill the better, there is no place for religion." Unlike Hitler's "catholicism," it is not just a piece of text thrown away from the context. Bolsheviks were deliberately seeking and killing priests and religious, thousands were murdered. Isn't it killing in the name of atheism? If not what is this? Will atheists respond like this: "they did not kill in the name of atheism itself, they just tried to destroy a particular historical type of religion. Therefore atheists cannot kill." Is such a (n il) logical lapse called reason? - 22/9/09 10:57 am
- Independent said...
If Hank wishes to see real hatred of Jews, homosexuals, and immigrants then Stalin is an excellent case in point, indeed atheists are not immune from the prejudices of the societies in which they live. The most anti-semitic articles produced in papers in the recent past have been in the liberal press with the New Statesman publishing a cartoon worthy of Der Sturmer.
One wonders why Hank dismisses those who happen to disagree with him as dullards. Is he of some exalted academic status?
Nor does he apply himself to the question of from where his morality originates? Man is a social animal and we live on the moral capital of the past. Societal breakdown is the consequence of the abandonment of this corpus of inherited values.
Perhaps also as an example of a new and in his eyes superior manner he should exhibit superior manners. - 22/9/09 12:15 pm
- The Bones said...
'The source of your morals is itself highly immoral; I'd rather take my morals from common sense and experience.'
Okay. If your mother and father sexually abuse you, lock you in a basement and feed you through a small hole, deprive you of love, friendship, parenting, care and treatment, from whence will you take your morals?
Your common sense and experience? You might say, "Well, obviously if that happened to me it would be awful and I'd disagree with it because of the shame and suffering."
Or alternatively you might say if it happened to you, "Well, that happened to me and it now appears natural to me, even second nature to do the same. I learned it from my experience. I don't know any better."
Secondly, if you only take your morals from your personal experience then your morals are not grounded in objective truth, but your own personality and whims, and if there is one thing we Catholics know, it is that our personalities and whims are subject to change, fluctuations and lead to all manner of personal disasters. - 22/9/09 12:39 pm
- Crux Fidelis said...
I've no idea where Hank is from but he is way off the mark with his jibe about hating and reviling immigrants. As a matter of fact a large proportion of Catholics in the UK are immigrants or their offspring (myself included). I imagine the same applies to the US. A young Pole recently said to me that just about the only place where he has been made to feel welcome was in church.
- 22/9/09 2:26 pm
- Unknown said...
Is it so hard to believe that crazy, evil people will do crazy, evil things? As I said in a previous post (that never made it up) Hitler was a crazy occultist who used Christianity to keep his population in line, Stalin set himself and the state up as a new "religion."
I also enjoy reading Christian defenses of capitalism, because Jesus was WAY a socialist. His message was "Blessed are the poor" and he told people to forgo their wealth to follow him. Sure he probably thought that the Second Coming was going to happen in about 95 AD but I digress.
I wish people would stop calling all atheists murderers, I have never killed someone, I have never assaulted someone, does my lack of belief in some non-physical, non-evidenced being somehow make me lose my humanity? Here I would point out the millions of deaths caused by religion, the suffering and hatred it breeds, and the extremists that come with every religion (Bill Donahue much?) but religious people are aware of this, and seemingly cannot comprehend a world where people would be good just because it is a good thing to do. - 22/9/09 3:00 pm
@ Lizard
"The more religious we kill the better, there is no place for religion."
Any chance for a citation for that supposed quote? What book or speech did that come from? I just did a Google search on the phrase and the only place on the entire internet that appears is in your post. I don't want to cry BS, but ...
Secondly, Dawkins doesn't need to defend against Stalin or Lenin. Communism is atheist, yes, but it is primarly about class struggle, not religious struggle. Religion was just one more way the rich and wealthy controlled the common populace, ie. opiate of the masses.
The vast majority of the Communist led killings in the 20th century were part of the revolutionary process itself (Long March, Russian Revolution), were related to political infighting and power grabs (Mao and Stalin's purges), were related to the hardcore centralization inherent in Communism (Holodor starvation over food collectivization) or were related to forced agrarianism (Killing Fields).
Blaming all those deaths on atheism is intellectually lazy and dishonest. Modern nations with significant portions of their population as nonbelievers are some of the least crime-riddenpopulations on the planet. - 22/9/09 7:21 pm
Thruxomatic said...
Any chance for a citation for that supposed quote? What book or speech did that come from? I
There dozens of such documents. here is just one short telegram with my quick translation. Do you like to see more?
1 мая 1919 года, №13666/2.
Председателю ВЧК тов. Дзержинскому
В соответствии с решением ВЦИК и Совнаркома, необходимо как можно быстрее покончить с попами и религией. Попов надлежит арестовывать как контрреволюционеров и саботажников, расстреливать беспощадно и повсеместно. И как можно больше. Церкви подлежат закрытию. Помещения храмов опечатывать и превращать в склады.
Председатель ВЦИК Калинин,
Председатель Совнаркома Ульянов (Ленин)
1 May 1919 No 13666/2.
to the Chairman of VChK comrade Dzerzhinsky
Following the decision of VTSIK it is necessary to finish with priests as soon as possible. Priests must be arrested and conter-revolutionaries and saboteurs, shot mercilessly everywhere. And as many of them as possible. Churches must be closed. Worship premises must be sealed and turned to warehouses.
Ulyanov (Lenin)
By the way, the grandgrandson of Felix Dzerzhinsky is my good friend and coauthor of some research papers. - 23/9/09 3:35 am
Thruxomatic said...
Blaming all those deaths on atheism is intellectually lazy and dishonest. Modern nations with significant portions of their population as nonbelievers are some of the least crime-riddenpopulations on the planet.
Priest must be shot mercilessly... Churches closed...- Blaming all those deaths on atheism is intellectually lazy and dishonest. Oh, it is just the class struggle. You must also posit that Blaming Jack the Ripper on killing is equally intellectually lazy and dishonest. He was just cutting holes in bodies. Your argument is an extraordinary unreason and clear nonsense.
"Modern nations with significant portions of their population as nonbelievers are some of the least crime-riddenpopulations on the planet."
Yes, but it is a completely different thing. The fact that modern European nations are non-aggressive does not tell anything against mass killing in the name of atheism that did occur in the past. Atheists did kill in the name of atheism. As Christians did kill in the name of Christ.
We can also compare aggression in nations with Christian heritage (most Europeans) with the rest and observe that those nations with Christian heritage are currently non-aggressive. Following your logic you must conclude that Christianity is responsible for non-aggression then.
As a matter of academic research you can also compare average aggressioveness in nations located in Europe with those in all other countries. You will not be surprised to find that Europeans are less aggressive. From this you must conclude that the European geographical position is responsible for non-aggression.
In a similar way you can compare aggression in nations with extensive railway network with those with poor rail network. Surprisingly, you'll observe that the former are significantly less aggressive. Following your logic you'll conclude that railway network causes non-aggression.
Try the same with the total number of tank engines in use during the last 200 years. Yes, it's the tank engines that cause non-aggression.
I think you can continue this kind of research investigating correlations between aggression and the number of electric bulbs in the household. The conclusion of course is this: bulbs also cause nonaggression. How about other factors like the number of Teflon saucepans and pans in the household: the more such pans, the less aggressive nation?
Now the abundance of elephants in habitats within 2000 km. Are you surprised to know that elephants living within such a distance cause aggression too? There would be a difference with countries without elephants being significantly less aggressive.
As a matter of further statistical exercise, compare average aggressiveness in nations which consume croissants for breakfast with those which do not. Your conclusion must be that it is eating croissants that causes non-aggression.
Are you still not convinced of your own fascinating unreason and irrationality?
So what is the argument? Be honest. Aggression and murder is a part of the human nature. An atheist would add it is just an inherited trait maintained by natural selection, a Christian would add that it is the consequence of the Fall.
Incidentally, the explanations of murder based on natural selection ("scientific theory") and fall ("Bible theory") are not mutually contradictory. I argue that after the Adam's fall humans have lost the God's grace which helped us control evil impulses that follow from our animal nature - just a short addition to the argument that science contradicts religious doctrine, no it does not. - 23/9/09 4:58 am
Blogger Colin said...
I wish people would stop calling all atheists murderers, I have never killed someone, I have never assaulted someone, does my lack of belief in some non-physical, non-evidenced being somehow make me lose my humanity?
No. not all atheists are murderers, most are just nice and kind people. I am sure it is possible to be good and moral (in the traditional in this country Christian sense) and be atheist or agnostic.
The main point is that "atheists never kill" or "no one was ever killed in the name of atheism" are wrong. The second point, that "religion inevitably promotes aggression and murder" is wrong too.
The basic problem with morality without God is that there is no universal criterion, no baseline point. The criterion for mortality is totally arbitrary, very well expressed by The Lion: "I'd rather take my morals from common sense and experience." - his morals from his own comon sense and his own experience (sic!). What if my common sense is cold selfish rationality, based solely on calculating the costs and benefits? In such a case it would be "moral" to kill 1000 if this is beneficial. It's a rather extreme example of an arbitrary morality, but possible. In this society morality is still significantly based on the Christian ethos and culture. But it is fragile and is being destroyed very easily.
You may point that (research has found that) morality is based on the common "species-specific" inherited traits of Homo sapiens, like inherent altruism etc (presumably maintained by natural selection). Yes, humans and other animals do display tendencies for altruism. Yes, this can be accounted for by a variety of biological factors (e.g. kin selection). The basic problem is that morality does not concern HOW people behave. Morality is about what we OUGHT to do. The theory that morality is based on emotions and sentiments is totally naive.
Even if people have an inherent tendency to be kind in some circumstances, why we ought to be kind? Also what is kind and good? People (and many animals) have also inherent tendencies to murder, xenophobia, paedophilia, etc etc. What is the criterion for considering one tendency as "good" and another as "bad"? It is very easy to build a perfectly rational and internally consistent moral system on any arbitrary basis, even on the most evil and perversed one.
I do not like to blame atheists for necessarily being killers and all kind of evil. It is wrong and totally dishonest. Many atheists are actually even more concerned about truth, ethics and morality than some catholics. Christians must not be too much proud of their own faith as if it were our own merit. Faith is a gift of grace - Deo gratias. Without such a gift we are all dumbest atheists. Anyone who thinks that faith is a kind of reward for being "good" risks losing faith, it is one of the worst and most dangerous kinds of spiritual pride. It is better to think of onself as the most poorest piece of scrap who won't even survive without being totally supported by God's grace and Faith, no place of arrogance of having faith. Anyway, atheists may be very good. Atheism is always evil (as a dirty person may be good, dirt is unquestionably bad). - 23/9/09 6:26 am
- Physiocrat said...
Just looking at actual events, both the atheistic French Revolution and all of the Communist revolutions singled out the religions and their followers for special attack, and right from the outset. It is not unreasonable to attribute this to atheism in that it in itself provides no framework for distinguishing between right or wrong and has no room for the concept of the natural law. When all is relative, then ultimately, anything goes.
Islam seems to be a special case of a religion with a violent founder, whose foundational texts preach violence and there is no authority to say that such utterances are to be taken in a metaphorical sense. Given also its denial of incarnation, perhaps it has a weak notion of the divinisation of the physical world, including man. These factors would help to explain the high body count resulting from actions done in the name of Islam.
I am always amused by the charge that religion is the opium of the people. Opium is substance that locks onto the body's endorphin receptors. Heroin is of course the contemporary opiate of choice. But everyone needs their endorphin receptors tickled one way or another. Some people go for a run. Others jump into cold water. Elaborate religious ceremonial with traditional chant, incense and other paraphernalia apparently does it quite well. Perhaps if more people participated in this kind of religion there would be less abuse of opiate substances. - 23/9/09 7:17 am
Sorry - a little correction of the Lenin's telegram (my fault typing error):
"Priests must be arrested AS (not and) conter-revolutionaries and saboteurs, shot mercilessly everywhere." - 23/9/09 9:35 am
- Independent said...
Thruxomatic tells us that "Communism is primarily about class struggle, not religious struggle". Is this entirely true, Marxists do not disentangle the struggles? Marx himself saw emancipation from religion as the first step in the struggle which would bring about the Communist society. In Marx's 'Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right'(K Marx "Early Writings" Penguin Books 1975 p 243) he says that "The criticism of religion is the prerequisite of all criticism" and goes on to make the famous assertion that "religion is the opiate of the people".The attack on religion is certainly an integral part of Marxism.
I would suspect ,though I have not checked ,that Bakunin would agree, and certainly the Spanish Anarchists who raped nuns and burned churches did so in the name of atheism. - 23/9/09 10:16 am
torrent1337 sdaid...
"If there is no God, everything is permitted" - Dostoyevsky
Dostoyevsky never said that either! Intentionally (and popularly) mis-attributed to him by Christians to suit their world view
Nonsense, torrent, you are either too ignorant or liar. Please read Dostoyevsky's "Karamazov Brothers" (Братья Карамазовы), it's exactly this: "Если Бога нет, то все позволено". "If there is no God, everything is permitted." - 23/9/09 1:27 pm
- Volpius Leonius said...
For atheists the ultimate law is the same as it was for the pagans before Christ came.
There is but one law for them and that law is the law of "might makes right."
Which is actually ok as long as you recognise that God is almighty and therefore makes all the other rules lol. - 23/9/09 10:05 pm
- Unknown said...
I find you analysis of atheism as inherently evil abhorrent. I think that belief in irrational beings is harmful to society. If religion were not so intertwined in so many people's lives we could resolve territory disputes, (i.e. the Israeli/Palestinian conflict) but, because most believe they have the approval of some "all powerful being" they accept no less then total victory.
1. I disagree with your point that atheism inspires violence. Atheism only inspires the insane or those detached from reality to kill another. Meanwhile scriptures approve of killing, either because someone "heard" god command it, or they are different. This is not moral, nor is the slaughter of entire tribes (except for the virgins: Judges 11:11) under ANY circumstances. Atrocities committed in the name of "god" however, are rife throughout history, suicide bombing, torture, and the Crusades.
You accuse atheists of being ignorant of the value of life. I don't need a god to tell me life has value. Some insane individuals have taken the (misquoted) Dostoevsky line (http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/features/2000/cortesi1.html) literally, this should be blamed on insane individuals, not the general beliefs they hold. However, there are identifiable motives to the "holy" crusades. (recover the "Holy Lands" from the infidels) But to the individuals fighting, they knew they were "doing God's will" by killing infidels.
You cite historical situations out of context. Religious establishments in France and Russia at the time of their revolutions were soundly in the pocket of the ruling class. Thus a populist revolt which targets the supporters of the status quo, would attack the aristocracy and religious hierarchy. But in each case this was an oppressed people taking retribution for abuses by the clergy. It is intellectually dishonest to call the religious repression that transpired "in the name of atheism." They were responses to previous abuses.
2. I would rather trust my morals to human experience than to a narcissistic, genocidal "God." Jesus had some good ideas, "love your neighbor as yourself," but the original post, and your reply seem to ignore that precept. Since atheism is evil by its very nature and the earth would be better without it. While anyone can come up with examples where individual experience is a bad example of morals, in the vast majority of cases a socially acceptable morality can be discerned from social experience.
As to morality being how to act as opposed to how one acts, I ask you to consider the following Matt 19:23-25 and the Vatican. I do not intend to paint with too broad a brush, I went to a wonderful Catholic high school, but the hypocrisy of organized religion cannot be dismissed.
3. No "universal moral baseline": The idea of "treat others as you would have them treat you" has popped up in many cultures independently. This suggests there is a biological explanation for this, not just a theological origin. Also, human culture could not have come as far as we have without overcoming these barriers to cooperation, thus your argument fails to account for human society today.
4. Philosophy has the "discussion of what is good vs. bad" well within it's purview, and I trust philosophers over "prophets." You seem to make the assumption that all atheists are cold, efficient followers of logic, almost Vulcan. Atheists are generally life focused. There is no animal sacrifice, nor human, to anything.
5. There has never been a country of peaceful religious people invaded by an atheistic nation solely to induce atheism.
I am not trying to indict every believer for the crimes of past believers, but I will not allow such abuses of power, and injustices to go unmentioned in discourse about the future of the world.
Calling atheism, evil is abhorrent. I hope that you can understand how insulting it is to say, essentially, many atheists are good people despite their evil disbelief in gods.
-Colin - 24/9/09 9:18 am
- Independent said...
Colin Point 5. The occupation of Eastern Europe by the Red Army in 1945 was in the name of a creed, Marxist-Leninism, of which atheism was an integral part. Countries and groups invariably act for mixed motives and just as religion undoubtedly acts as a motive for action in some very few cases,so too does atheism. In both cases they are part of a package of motives. We must all beware of over- simplification.
Point 3. Certainly in pre-revolutionary Russia and France the upper clergy differed little from the aristocracy, but it is noteworthy that in the latter country the House of Clergy joined the Third Estate in the National Assembly. The Revolution only became anti-religious when the Jacobins gained power. In Russia the February Revolution was succeeded by the Bolshevik Revolution and there was not doubt about its inspiration. Lenin may have departed from Marx but he shared his view of religion as being the first enemy. - 24/9/09 1:53 pm
- Unknown said...
@ Independent
First, again, Leninism/Stalinism replaced religious devotion with state worship; they were a religious population before, and when the Bolsheviks came to power they recognized this as an opportunity to control the populace. They did not belong in the dictator business if they could not exploit this opportunity. Thus while communist countries tend to be "officially atheist" that is a bit of a misnomer, as state worship replaces religion. My point is that the Soviet government took a people who bowed to religion, and substituted the state for god, so the negative aspects of religious belief (unquestioning obedience to authority, etc...) While shedding the previous god and clergy.
When you say that the House of the Clergy joined the Third Estate, I did a little reading and it seems to me that while the "lower" clergy would often be devoted to the people, the "high" clergy were mostly just aristocrats who would not inherit their father's titles of the majority of his wealth. So if you were saying that there were some good clergy, sure. There have always been clergy people who are concerned primarily with the well being of the poor and downtrodden. But this was far from the case in pre-revolutionary France.
The Bolsheviks were an ideological group who, again, worshiped the state. And their motivations were clear, they wanted to control the new government of the largest country on earth. Were many of them violent sociopaths? The trail of bodies cannot be ignored, but again there had been hundreds of years of Czars ranging from slightly mean to downright brutal, and these Czars were also the head of the church, an instrument they used to enforce their will.
In no way in either case am I suggesting that the people were justified, or "right" to kill off the clergy, quite the opposite. I am simply trying to put these actions in the historical context in which they belong. - 24/9/09 4:30 pm
- Independent said...
colin - I am afraid that your history is seen through a particular lense rather than looking unblinkered at the actual facts.More than a "little" reading would seem appropriate, You impose upon it an ideology which suggest that any belief system, even one which is aggressively and professedly atheist, is a religion.
Please look at what the Jacobins and the Bolsheviks actually said and consider in the latter case the actual teaching of that articulate, scholarly. thoroughly atheistic system, Marxist-Leninism.
There are plenty of modern works on both the French and Russian Revolutions and on Marxist-Leninism.
It is obvious that just as there are many varieties of religion, so there are varieties of atheism. Why not accept that the Jacobins and the Bolsheviks did things in the name of atheism with which your particular brand is not in agreement?
It confuses the issue to say that atheists who integrate their ideas into a belief-system are in fact religious. - 24/9/09 6:50 pm
Important note: Please let me point that there is no religion as such. There are diverse "religions," many of which may be irrational etc. There exist very little which unites all these "religions." I therefore do not consider such generalised religions. Here by religion I mean solely the Catholic religion.
A. Rationality
I disagree with your point that religion is irrational. Rationalism is the theory positing that the source of knowledge and the criterion of truth is intellectual and deductive. Here reason is the source of knowledge. In the Catholic religion, the source of knowledge is intellectual and deductive. We have a few basic "axioms" which are the result revelation of God. All other religious knowledge is inferred by reason. We need basic axioms for any logical system (well known Goedel's theorem, do I won't touch this topic to be brief).
Now consider atheism. Is atheist's position rational? For atheist, the source of knowledge is empirical and subjective - atheist does not believe in God's existence because he personally did not see Him or any traces of His existence. What if someone else had an experience of God? This is not considered an "evidence" because it is someone's else experience. Now what are the atheist's basic "axioms" from where all other knowledge is inferred by reason? There is none. Only personal sensory experience. So I repeat, atheism it is not rational (it's probably empirical, but I repeat, it is NOT rational).
Atheist says he is rational because he bases his knowledge on "evidence." What is considered evidence then? There is no rational criterion. In most cases it is just an arbitrary choice (of the kind "I just believe this"). Actually, knowledge cannot be based "on evidence." Knowledge can be based only on trust and belief. Do you have any evidence for the existence of quarks? On what is it based? I am almost sure, on just trusting certain popular science publications (based on other of which the popular writer and you probably do not even understand 10%). Do you have any evidence that the Earth is not flat? I do not think so. All your knowledge is just trusting to the information you were given at school and everywhere. If you were taught it is flat, you will believe this nonsense. Have you been told that a small teapot is rotating at an elliptical orbit around the Earth, you'll believe this.
Ok, suppose you are a scientist. You are doing experiments, and making inferences based on your results and results of other experiments. Now the question is how you believe the all the information contained in someone else's scientific paper is totally valid and true, how could you be sure that the author of the paper did all correctly, perfectly understood the methods he used, perfectly understood the statistics and mathematics he applied? You again just trust. No scientist can be sure that everything is correct, even if he is honest. For example, most biologists do not well understand statistical methods they use and often use them incorrectly. It can even be demonstrated that a vary significant part of the scientific knowledge contained in numerous research journals is actually false. - 24/9/09 10:36 pm
A. Rationality (cont'd)
Now an atheist might agree that, even if there is no universal and unlimited "evidence," he bases his knowledge on the "scientific evidence," a procedure involving demonstrable and reproducible evidence (he might concede, local evidence). Here everyone can use the same procedure and obtain the same result. I argue that this argument is fundamentally flawed. While this evidence can be used in science operating with universal and reproducible physical reality, it cannot be used in numerous other cases. Especially those which involve unique singular phenomena. Almost all religious phenomena are of this kind, therefore they cannot be approached using the scientist reproducibility and demonstrability criteria.
Suppose you are interested to know did Mr.Raskolnikov kill the babushka. Are you going to find a sample of 100 Raskolnikov's and a sample of 100 babushka's, then put them together and see if one will kill the other? Then you will probably use the standard scientific procedure of using a statistical test to check if the number of murdered babushkas is statistically significantly different from zero. Nonsense? I am sure you will better try to find one or more witnesses, who saw or know anything about this particular case. For example, Mr.Jones may tell you that he saw Mr. Raskilnikov holding a bag with traces of blood and an axe, Mrs.Smith saw him selling a piece of jewelry which Mrs.Williams claim to belonged to the babushka. Why are you so ready to consider Mr.Jones' and others witness as an "evidence"? Why do not you consider the witness of Apostle Thomas about rising Christ? It is just because you do not believe the latter. So it is your belief that is fundamental.
Thus, the "evidence" is largely illusory. You may have only a very local evidence for something physically reproducible, but even here it is very far from being 100% correct. "Evidence" just does not exist.
A Catholic theist is perfectly aware of the fundamental limitation of his knowledge and of the limited nature of logic and rationality (e.g. no logic can be self-evidencing, it always requires an external axiom, Goedel). Such a theist is happy to find (and/or choose) someone he can trust perfectly, to be such an initial baseline axiom. We call this source of belief God. Atheist may argue this choice is totally arbitrary. Yes, it may well be true. But the atheist's choice is equally arbitrary, moreover, it is not based on anything at all. It is in fact based on ignorance. Atheist just ignores these fundamental questions, he does not like to understand and take into account that there is a fundamental limitation of his own source of knowledge, evidence and rationality. Atheist thinks of himself as perfectly aware and unlimited. I think even an atheist would call someone claiming to be an infallible source of truth insane. Therefore, atheism is not only not rational. Atheism is also irrational: "dixit stultus in corde suo non est Deus."
[Agnosticism is rational and internally logically consistent. While atheist is really insane because he does not understand and does not take account of his own rationality limitation, an agnostic may perfectly understand this but just chose not to believe. Alright, it is the matter of his existential choice.] - 24/9/09 10:38 pm
Father, sorry for blogging on your own blog.
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Colin said...
If religion were not so intertwined in so many people's lives we could resolve territory disputes, (i.e. the Israeli/Palestinian conflict) but, because most believe they have the approval of some "all powerful being" they accept no less then total victory.
These your views are naive. First, many people are doing evil in the name of good things. Consider love. Some people kill because they love someone (sometimes even kill the person they love). Do you hold that if love were not interwined in so many people lives, we could save so many lives? Patriotism. Do you believe if patriotism were not so....etc. Truth. Many people will kill (or at least bash) in the name of truth (are many atheists such?). Do you believe if seeking of truth were not so intertwined...etc?
The basic problem with such conflicts, as well as many if not all other disputes, wars and mass murders is delusion: false religion, false ideology, false love, false patriotism, false "truth" etc. In most national conflicts like Palestinian/Israeli, religion is only a pretext. If there were no religious differences, they will use nationality, language, skin colour, accent, and all other characters on which these groups differ. They will also CREATE characters which will differentiate one group from another. E.g. characteristic kinds of garments.
What is most important is how people identify and distinguish those from in-group from those from out-group. It is even not psychology, it is biology. Human nature is fundamentally evil. Atheists will argue it is the consequence of evolution by natural selection, here I tend to agree (although it is only a part of the whole story). Chimpanzees make organised wars and kill conspecifics from other groups. They identify those from out-group by unfamiliarity, smell (linked with MHC genes), language dialect etc. Chimps do not have religion but still do war. It's evolutionary biology, not religion. - 24/9/09 11:03 pm
olin said...
"1. I disagree with your point that atheism inspires violence."
As any other irrational ideology, atheism may inspire violence by facilitating delusion. It is agnosticism that does not inspire violence. In fact agnostics never killed anyone. While we know thousands and millions were killed in the name of atheism (and in the name of God or gods), no one has ever been killed in the name of agnosticism. So it is a much more honest, rational and peaceful position, although false.
"Religious establishments in France and Russia....were soundly in the pocket of the ruling class. Thus a populist revolt which targets the supporters of the status quo, would attack the aristocracy and religious hierarchy. ...It is intellectually dishonest to call the religious repression that transpired "in the name of atheism." They were responses to previous abuses.
This is incorrect. I know the situation in Russia and must tell that communists were really exterminating religion in the name of atheism, it was not something concomitant. Atheism with arbitrary morality is in the heart of communism. Do you know that communists tried to build a new morality? For example, women were encouraged (in many cases, forced) to be "common." They failed and had to return to traditional morality just because their experimental arbitrary morality was contradicting the human nature (nothing highly spiritual, just biology and psychology). So if they tried to exterminate all religions deliberately, how can you call this was not done in the name of atheism? It is not only dishonest, it is irrational.
"2. I would rather trust my morals to human experience... in the vast majority of cases a socially acceptable morality can be discerned from social experience."
There exist many cultures with substantially different moral values. Are you willing to present your wife for a night to an occasional stranger in your home? But it is "socially acceptable" and moral in certain cultures (e.g. Chukcha in Arctic Russia). What exactly experience do you mean? What is the source of your morality? You must agree that it is arbitrary. Irrational, vague and inexact thinking about morality is potentially harmful.
"As to morality being how to act as opposed to how one acts, I ask you to consider the following Matt 19:23-25 and the Vatican....but the hypocrisy of organized religion cannot be dismissed."
Hypocrisy does exist and may even be widespread. I think everyone agrees it is evil. So what's the argument? Are you going to dismiss mathematics as false if you occasionally find that a math teacher cannot extract square root correctly? Error, Evil and sin are the human nature in this world. - 25/9/09 12:20 am
"3. No "universal moral baseline": The idea of "treat others as you would have them treat you" has popped up in many cultures independently. This suggests there is a biological explanation for this, not just a theological origin."
Yes, a biological explanation may be true. It may be false, this maxima may also not appear independently in various cultures, at least in this verbalized form: there is a significant flow of memes between cultures. Do you have any evidence that this maxima is present in ALL cultures and is a universal species-specific trait?
Not all people behave this way and not in all contexts. In competitive contexts many people pursue their own interest. In highly competitive contexts. most people will be nasty beasts. The above kindness is certainly not even an universal and domain-general tendency. A further problem for an atheist and evolutionist is that this behavioural strategy (it is proven mathematically) is not evolutionary stable, a nasty mutant will easily spread within the population being more fitted. An evolutionarily better strategy is be "treat your relatives or members of your in-group as you like them to treat you" - this is the root of xenophobia. Do you think xenophobia is moral?
The most important point is this: these tendencies, whatever they are, are just about HOW people behave. They are not about WHY we OUGHT to behave in this or that way. Why xenophobia is bad but indiscriminate altruism is good? Why unconditional "treat others..." is better than "treat your relatives..."? The question ought requires an external criterion.
4. "You seem to make the assumption that all atheists are cold, efficient followers of logic, almost Vulcan."
No, just the opposite. Almost every atheist I saw was an illogical, irrational dude offended by something or someone and preoccupied with envy and lots of psychological problems. Totally emotional and not much efficient. Philosophy has the discussion of what is good and what is bad and philosophers typically agree that (1) morality cannot base on sentiments and tendencies; (2) morality requires an external criterion. So what is the fuss about?
"5. There has never been a country of peaceful religious people invaded by an atheistic nation solely to induce atheism."
There were peaceful religious people living in a country, and atheists raising against these peaceful people to kill them solely because of their belief. If they do not believe these things, why not let them continue their harmless excentricity? Why kill and forbid? - 25/9/09 12:22 am
"colin - I am afraid that your history is seen through a particular lense rather than looking unblinkered at the actual facts."
Yes, most fervent atheists I ever seen are illogical, irrational and emotional dudes. Their way of thinking is inflexible, dogmatized and ignorant. Causal reasoning is certainly not their main strength. - 25/9/09 12:37 am
- Independent said...
Stalin. Hitler, Pol Pot, Mao were all atheists - that can easily be attested from their public writings. They were all mass murderers. Can this be shrugged aside by saying that it is co-incidence?
Certainly one can think of Christian religious people who committed massacres (minor when compared to the big four), but they can be condemned in the name of the religion which they professed. On what grounds can an atheist condemn Stalin et al?
On what grounds was the anti-God Museum in Moscow defended? It cannot be dismissed as an example of state worship.(It is said to have included a picture of the Archbishop of Canterbury). - 25/9/09 8:52 am
- Physiocrat said...
Perhaps a good analogy for atheism is a gun with the safety catch off. But Islam has the same problem, and Christianity has been problematic when people have been so concerned about other people's immortal souls that they have thought it OK to burn them at the stake.
The real problem, I suggest, is attachment to things, people, land, ideologies, ways of doing things. - 25/9/09 9:15 am
- Albrecht von Brandenburg said...
"Christianity has been problematic when people have been so concerned about other people's immortal souls that they have thought it OK to burn them at the stake."
Er, no it hasn't.
It was a punishment for wrongdoing, much as hanging was a punishment for wrongdoing.
Are you going to say civilisation has been problematic when it has been so concerned for morality, that it hanged murderers??
Somehow, I doubt it. - 26/9/09 1:01 pm
- Simon Platt said...
Dear Lizard,
thanks for your posts. I hope Fr. didn't mind their length. I suppose he didn't, and I certainly didn't. I read them with interest and found them inspiring. - 26/9/09 3:43 pm
- Unknown said...
Oh vey, atheists get all uppity over the idea that they kill and resort to going "oh oh oh oh oh religious people have killed." Y'know that Sam Harris has advocated killing Christians, right? Maybe atheists would do well to weed out the rats in their ranks and stay out of religious affairs.
Of course ey won't be able to help themselves, being too fanatical and obsessed with something they don't believe in to stop pushing for their ideal world without religion, without freedom, with only atheism as the allowed and tolerated belief. - 11/2/10 9:34 pm
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This box started out as this non-descript rubbery-acetate-y thing. I thought I would store craft stuff in this set of three I picked up at a yardsale. But a trip to Pinterest got me thinking what a beautiful Christmas decor box this could be. I am also a
My daughter has expressed her love of this creation, and has inquired as to where it is going to end up. She has been so helpful to me in getting my photos uploaded to my blog, that I am going to fill it with some "horse" money and gift it to her. Enjoy, Lauren!
The box was treated to some alcohol inks, then HEAT embossed with Holographic embossing powder on the inside and white embossing powder on the outside. I also used the Holographic EP on the edges of the lid and the corners of the box on the outside. Yes! You can heat emboss plastic if you are patient! Thank goodness there was an extra lid in the set of three, because I got to test all my techniques on that first. Of course, the test came out better than the finished product!
I altered two silver Christmas balls with Mod Podge and Epsom salts, and two leaves from my flower stash with Dylusions and Tattered Angels sprays, followed by the Epsom salt treatment. I am sold on this, and will be selling my jar of Diamond Dust to the highest bidder! That stuff was tearing up my hands, and I'm sure it's not good for my kitties paws.
The pinkish ball was done with 15 squirts of water from my mister and a couple of Sweet and Low spoonfuls of Perfect Pearls powders (yes, I hoard Sweet and Low spoons in my Embossing Powder drawer--you should try it, they are really handy!) and left to drip dry for days!
Now for a BIG hug to Pamellia for her tutorial on UTEE! I have never used this stuff before, but after her great easy to follow instructions, I knew I had to break out that 15 year old jar for this project. I had to add on a few more layers, though, and in addition to the white embossing powder layer, I added a layer of Holographic EP, before finishing up with several more layers of UTEE. Suffice it to say, these buggers are thick and I have no more fingerprints on my fingers! A couple of cheap silk flowers were harmed in the making of my poinsettia stamen. Thank you so much, Pamellia for helping me to take a step out of my comfort zone to give UTEE a try, and for your wonderfully easy to follow and informative tutorial! If you haven't seen it yet, be sure to visit the link above.
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Mendoza, who appeared as the featured can-can dancer "China Doll" in Baz Luhrmann's film Moulin Rouge!, has previously been seen on Broadway as Arachne in Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. Her other stage credits include Here Lies Love, Miss Saigon and Ghost. She is known for her screen roles in Hotel Babylon, The Descent, Blue Bloods and more. Mendoza will appear in the upcoming film Annette, alongside Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard.
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Forget Donovan McNabb or Albert Haynesworth for a minute. What are the Redskins going to do at wide receiver? Santana Moss is a free agent, which pretty much leaves Washington with, well ...
"I'm sure we'll try to sign Santana Moss back, but we need a big-time receiver," tight end Chris Cooley said on Tuesday's "Cover Two Podcast". "We've got to have someone step in and fill that position."
Washington drafted Miami's Leonard Hankerson, Nebraska's Niles Paul and SMU's Aldrick Robinson, but there remains a void in the "big-time receiver" department. Sidney Rice, Santonio Holmes and Braylon Edwards will be free agents. So will Plaxico Burress, Terrell Owens and maybe Chad Ochocinco.
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Silky Moth
Flutters about.
Wing flutter (constant); vocalizations (on-click)
Breed / Capture Advice :
As this moveset is shared alongside 14 other moths, there are plenty of options to cover all 10 breeds.
Similar to the Oasis Moth, this moth has 1 very common breed, with options to less common breeds, SB and SS.
Shared breeds :
BB - Most (excluding Amber, Oasis)
found a rare at the head of the snake river that runs through ungoro. it was paired with a rare cockroach and an uncommon parrot. Found a second rare not even twenty feet from it. Found the third rare about ten minutes later, as a secondary off an ash lizard on the west side of Fire Plume Ridge.
Found a rare S/S in Hyjal
Found as a secondary to mobs on Isle of Thunder, lvl 24-25
I believe the S/S (5,15) breed of this moth is the fastest moth available.
I was able to find several silky moths as spawns in Moonglade today as well as secondary to squirrels. So it's possible to find them spawned in Moonglade. Luck of the draw.
No spawns in Moonglade when I entered so I followed one of the other comments and went after squirrels. Not only did I find several of Uncommon quality, 2 spawned when I killed off all 4 squirrels in the vicinity. No rares yet but I think it should be easy enough to get one. No one's here!
Exactly, these are also found on Isle of Thunder, found a rare one there.
Found a level 25 rare as a secondary pet on the new Island for the Kirin Tor ffensive dailies.
Moonglade single at 40,63 7:10pm server
Nabbed mine in moonglade as an add on a squirrel, but didn't see any singles.
Went looking for this in Moonglade, and had no hope in finding one there. Went to Un'goro and managed to find one flying around at Golakka Hot Springs whilst looking for a Diemetradon Hatchling! Didnt think i was going to be able to find one of these until i got to Hyjal!
[Edit] Found a few more flying around terror run in Un'goro
fighting in darkwhisper gorge, found a silky moth when fighting ash lizard.. hp so low @ 771, not really worth capturing. found another ash lizard with two silky moths.. 954 and 1077 hp, 1077 turned out to be rare


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ssh email@example.com firstname.lastname@example.com's password: Linux raspberrypi 3.2.27+ #250 PREEMPT Thu Oct 18 19:03:02 BST 2012 armv6l The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software; the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright. Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by applicable law. NOTICE: the software on this Raspberry Pi has not been fully configured. Please run 'sudo raspi-config' pi@raspberrypi ~ $ cat /proc/cpuinfo Processor : ARMv6-compatible processor rev 7 (v6l) BogoMIPS : 697.95 Features : swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp java tls CPU implementer : 0x41 CPU architecture: 7 CPU variant : 0x0 CPU part : 0xb76 CPU revision : 7 Hardware : BCM2708 Revision : 000f Serial : 000000008c86c7c9First thing i search in a debian is the firebird packages
apt-cache search firebird falconpl-dbi-firebird - Firebird SQL database abstraction layer for Falcon P.L firebird-dev - Development files for Firebird - an RDBMS based on InterBase 6.0 code firebird2.5-classic - Firebird Classic Server - an RDBMS based on InterBase 6.0 code firebird2.5-classic-common - common files for firebird 2.5 "classic" and "superclassic" firebird2.5-classic-dbg - collected debug symbols for firebird2.5-classic and -superclassic firebird2.5-common - common files for firebird 2.5 servers and clients firebird2.5-common-doc - copyright, licnesing and changelogs of firebird2.5 firebird2.5-doc - Documentation files for firebird database version 2.5 firebird2.5-examples - Examples for Firebird - an RDBMS based on InterBase 6.0 code firebird2.5-server-common - common files for firebird 2.5 servers firebird2.5-super - Firebird Super Server - an RDBMS based on InterBase 6.0 code firebird2.5-super-dbg - collected debug symbols for firebird2.5-super firebird2.5-superclassic - Firebird SuperClassic Server - an RDBMS based on InterBase 6.0 code flamerobin - graphical database administration tool for Firebird DBMS libdbd-firebird-perl - Perl DBI driver for Firebird RDBMS server libdbi-perl - Perl Database Interface (DBI) libfbclient2 - Firebird client library libfbembed2.5 - Firebird embedded client/server library libib-util - Firebird UDF support library libwtdbofirebird-dev - Firebird backend for Wt::Dbo [development] libwtdbofirebird32 - Firebird backend for Wt::Dbo [runtime] php5-interbase - interbase/firebird module for php5What is next ? installing firebird 2.5 super server of course
sudo apt-get install firebird2.5-super Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: firebird2.5-common firebird2.5-common-doc firebird2.5-server-common libfbclient2 libib-util Suggested packages: firebird2.5-doc The following NEW packages will be installed: firebird2.5-common firebird2.5-common-doc firebird2.5-server-common firebird2.5-super libfbclient2 libib-util 0 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 3,300 kB of archives. After this operation, 12.8 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y Get:1 http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ wheezy/main firebird2.5-common-doc all 2.5.2~svn+54698.ds4-1 [636 kB] Get:2 http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ wheezy/main firebird2.5-common all 2.5.2~svn+54698.ds4-1 [95.7 kB] Get:3 http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ wheezy/main libfbclient2 armhf 2.5.2~svn+54698.ds4-1 [223 kB] Get:4 http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ wheezy/main libib-util armhf 2.5.2~svn+54698.ds4-1 [3,814 B] Get:5 http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ wheezy/main firebird2.5-server-common armhf 2.5.2~svn+54698.ds4-1 [488 kB] Get:6 http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ wheezy/main firebird2.5-super armhf 2.5.2~svn+54698.ds4-1 [1,853 kB] Fetched 3,300 kB in 13s (238 kB/s) Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously unselected package firebird2.5-common-doc. (Reading database ... 57783 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking firebird2.5-common-doc (from .../firebird2.5-common-doc_2.5.2~svn+54698.ds4-1_all.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package firebird2.5-common. Unpacking firebird2.5-common (from .../firebird2.5-common_2.5.2~svn+54698.ds4-1_all.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package libfbclient2:armhf. Unpacking libfbclient2:armhf (from .../libfbclient2_2.5.2~svn+54698.ds4-1_armhf.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package libib-util:armhf. Unpacking libib-util:armhf (from .../libib-util_2.5.2~svn+54698.ds4-1_armhf.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package firebird2.5-server-common. Unpacking firebird2.5-server-common (from .../firebird2.5-server-common_2.5.2~svn+54698.ds4-1_armhf.deb) ... Selecting previously unselected package firebird2.5-super. Unpacking firebird2.5-super (from .../firebird2.5-super_2.5.2~svn+54698.ds4-1_armhf.deb) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Setting up firebird2.5-common-doc (2.5.2~svn+54698.ds4-1) ... Setting up firebird2.5-common (2.5.2~svn+54698.ds4-1) ... Setting up libfbclient2:armhf (2.5.2~svn+54698.ds4-1) ... Setting up libib-util:armhf (2.5.2~svn+54698.ds4-1) ... Setting up firebird2.5-server-common (2.5.2~svn+54698.ds4-1) ... adduser: Warning: The home directory `/var/lib/firebird' does not belong to the user you are currently creating. Setting up firebird2.5-super (2.5.2~svn+54698.ds4-1) ... Created default security2.fdb [ ok ] Firebird 2.5 super server not running. [warn] Not starting Firebird 2.5 super server ... (warning). [warn] Use `dpkg-reconfigure firebird2.5-super' to enable ... (warning).So let's enable Firebird super server
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure firebird2.5-super [ ok ] Firebird 2.5 super server not running. [ ok ] Starting Firebird 2.5 super server...done. [ ok ] Firebird 2.5 super server already running.Yes it's on
ps axu | grep firebird firebird 2830 0.0 0.1 4528 796 ? S 19:18 0:00 /usr/sbin/fbguard -daemon -forever -pidfile /var/run/firebird/2.5/fbserver.pid firebird 2832 0.2 1.0 62444 4540 ? Sl 19:18 0:00 /usr/sbin/fbserverStill got 256m of free memory for nginx , php , or something better a node.js experiment Let's create/use a database and see simple firebird at work
sudo apt-get install firebird2.5-examples firebird-dev cp /usr/share/doc/firebird2.5-common-doc/examples/empbuild/employee.fdb.gz gunzip employee.fdb.gz sudo chown firebird.firebird employee.fdb mv employee.fdb /var/lib/firebird/2.5/data isql-fb Use CONNECT or CREATE DATABASE to specify a database SQL> connect "/var/lib/firebird/2.5/data/employee.fdb " user 'SYSDBA' password 'masterkey' CON> ; Database: "/var/lib/firebird/2.5/data/employee.fdb ", User: SYSDBA SQL> show tables; COUNTRY CUSTOMER DEPARTMENT EMPLOYEE EMPLOYEE_PROJECT JOB PROJECT PROJ_DEPT_BUDGET SALARY_HISTORY SALES SQL> show version; ISQL Version: LI-V22.214.171.124508 Firebird 2.5 Server version: Firebird/linux ARM (access method), version "LI-V126.96.36.199508 Firebird 2.5" Firebird/linux ARM (remote server), version "LI-V184.108.40.206508 Firebird 2.5/tcp (raspberrypi)/P12" Firebird/linux ARM (remote interface), version "LI-V22.214.171.124508 Firebird 2.5/tcp (raspberrypi)/P12" on disk structure version 11.2 SQL> SQL> create database "/var/lib/firebird/2.5/data/first_database.fdb" user 'SYSDBA' password 'masterkey' CON> ; Commit current transaction (y/n)?y Committing. SQL> connect "/var/lib/firebird/2.5/data/first_database.fdb" user 'SYSDBA' password 'masterkey'; Commit current transaction (y/n)?y Committing. Database: "/var/lib/firebird/2.5/data/first_database.fdb", User: SYSDBA SQL> CREATE TABLE TEST (ID INT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, NAME VARCHAR(20)); SQL> show tables CON> ; TEST SQL> INSERT INTO TEST VALUES (1, 'John'); SQL> INSERT INTO TEST VALUES (2, 'Joe'); SQL> select * from test; ID NAME ============ ==================== 1 John 2 Joe SQL>Later i will try firebird c api examples
cd /usr/share/doc/firebird2.5-common-doc/examples/api cp *.gz ~/ chown pi.pi *.gz cd ~ gunzip *.gz gcc -L/usr/lib -lfbclient -I/usr/share/doc/firebird2.5-common-doc/examples/include/ api1.c ISC_USER=SYSDBA ISC_PASSWORD=masterkey ./a.out /tmp/new.fdb Created database '/tmp/new.fdb'. Successfully accessed the newly created database.So all it works as it should without errors and at the speed of pentium 2 like system or even faster I love the small server and i can leave it on 24x7 without the need to think too much for the energy costs
Next i have tested the firebird python driver fdb
sudo apt-get install python-pip pip install fdb cat test.py con = fdb.connect(dsn='/var/lib/firebird/2.5/data/employee.fdb', user='sysdba', password='masterkey') cur = con.cursor() SELECT = "select * from employee" # 2. Equivalently using fetchall(): # This is potentially dangerous if result set is huge, as the whole result set is first materialized # as list and then used for iteration. cur.execute(SELECT) for row in cur.fetchall(): print 'ID:%d Name %s.' % (row[0], row[1]) python test.py .... ID:141 Name Pierre. ID:144 Name John. ID:145 Name Mark.Next on my testing list is compiling the node.js (doing it rightnow) and the pure JavaScript Firebird driver with an express demo Update : compiling node is done here are my results


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Ansonia Clock History
The Ansonia Clock Company was one of the major 19th century American clock manufacturers. It produced millions of clocks in the period between 1850, its year of incorporation, and 1929, the year the company went into receivership and sold its remaining assets to Soviet Russia.
Here is a brief timeline describing the events leading to the formation of the Ansonia Clock Company and to its ultimate demise.
1844 – The Ansonia Brass Company is formed by Anson Green Phelps
Although he became one of the great mercantile capitalists of his time, Anson G. Phelps had rather humble beginnings. Born to an old Connecticut family, he was orphaned at age ten, and soon after became a saddlemaker's apprentice. He later moved to Hartford and went into business for himself as a merchant and a shrewd trader. He bartered saddles for cotton from South Carolina and then sold the cotton in New York. With the proceeds from the cotton sales he purchased dry goods to sell back in his Hartford store.
At age 31 he moved to New York and joined forces with another Connecticut trader, Elisha Peck. As the firm of Phelps & Peck they exported Sourthern cotton to England and imported metals to New York in return, becoming New Yorks largest metal importer of the time.
After his partnership with Peck dissolved, he formed the firm of Phelps, Dodge & Co. with two of his son-in-laws. Phelps, Dodge and Co. remained a leading New York metals importer. Located in southeastern Connecticut's Naugatuck River Valley on the east bank of the river, nine miles from New Haven, and the factory produced rolled brass for industrial uses. The city of Ansonia was originally part of a larger area called Derby. When the city was incorporated in 1889 it was named Ansonia in honor of Anson Phelps.
1850 – The Ansonia Clock Company is formed as a subsidiary of the Ansonia Brass Company by Phelps and two Bristol, Connecticut clockmakers, Theodore Terry and Franklin C. Andrews.
By 1838, inexpensive clock movements made of rolled brass had largely replaced wooden and cast brass movements in America. Terry & Andrews were the largest clock manufacturers in Bristol at that time. They had more than 50 employees and had used 58 tons of brass in the production of about 25,000 clocks in the previous year. Phelps decided to get into the clock making business as a means to expand his market for his brass products. It was a shrewd business move for Phelps to join forces with Terry and Andrews, allowing him to profit from the manufacture of a clock's raw components and the finished product as well.
Terry and Andrews thought it was a good business decision for them as well, giving them ready access to large quantities of brass for use in clock movements. They agreed to sell Phelps a 50% interest in their clock making business and move the entire operation to Ansonia, CT, where Phelps had his brass mill.
1851 – 1852 Andrews leaves the business. In 1851 Andrews sells all but one of his shares. He sells his remaining share to Terry in 1852.
1853 Ansonia exhibits their cast iron cased clocks at the New York World's Fair. Only two other American clock companies exhibited at the fair, which opened on July 4, 1853. They were the Jerome Manufacturing Company of New Haven, Connecticut, and the Litchfield Manufacturing Company of Litchfield, Connecticut.
1853 – Anson Phelps, at age 73, sells his interest in the Ansonia Clock Company to his son-in-law, James B. Stokes. Stokes was one of the directors of the firm of Phelps, Dodge & Co., a metal importing company originally founded by Anson G. Phelps and two of his son-in-laws. Phelps dies a wealthy man at his New York City home on November 30, 1853.
[Early engraving of the original Ansonia Clock Factory in Connecticut]
1854 – A huge fire destroys the Ansonia Clock Company factory. The New York Daily Times reports at the time: "New Haven, Saturday, July 8 – The large stone factory of the Ansonia Clock Company was wholly destroyed by fire early this morning. The loss exceeds one hundred thousand dollars. Insured for about fifty thousand. The business of the company was conducted by T. Terry & Son."
1854 – The land and the ruined buildings are bought by the directors of Phelps, Dodge & Co. The shares purchased include the remaining shares owned by the last of the original founders, Theodore Terry. It is interesting to note that Terry thereafter became involved in a clock venture with the great promoter P. T. Barnum. It produced clocks under the name of the Terry & Barnum Manufacturing Company until its bankruptcy in March of 1856.
1854 to 1869 – The Ansonia Brass & Battery Mill, one of Phelps, Dodge & Co. subsidiary companies, continues to make brass movements for supply to the general clock making trade. They also made some finished clocks that were usually marketed under the label "Ansonia Brass Company" and, more rarely, the "Ansonia Brass & Battery Company" In 1860 they report having manufactured 22,000 clock movements and 2,000 finished clocks during the previous year.
1869 – Full-scale clock production resumes under the name of the newly incorporated Ansonia Brass & Copper Co., a reorganization of the Ansonia Brass & Battery Company. By June of 1870, the company reports it had manufactured 83,503 clocks. By this time the factory employed 150 workers and had used 90,000 pounds of brass in making the clocks. The earliest known price list under the Ansonia Brass & Copper Company name, dated January 1, 1873, offers 45 models of clocks and timepieces and fourteen different movements.
1877 – The Ansonia Clock Company is reborn when the clock making operation is spun off from the brass milling operation. The company is incorporated in New York City, its shares held primarily by the officers of Phelps, Dodge & Company. Henry J. Davies of Brooklyn, himself a clockmaker, inventor and case designer, joins the newly reconstituted company as one of its founders. As President of the firm he makes great contributions to its success. He is thought to be largely responsible for the figurine clocks, swing clocks and other unusual and desirable novelties for which the Ansonia firm became known, and which are among today's most collectible of Ansonia clocks.
1878 – Inventor Thomas Edison visits the Ansonia Clock Company factory to experiment in combining clocks with his newly developed phonograph. Edison and his principal lab assistant, Charles Batchelor, did some of the initial experiments, leaving the Ansonia Clock Company to continue with the bulk of the research and development. Attempts to make a commercially viable "phonograph clock" proved ultimately unsuccessful.
1879 – A second Ansonia Clock factory is opened in Brooklyn, New York. By June of 1880 it has 360 workers. The Ansonia, Connecticut factory continues producing clocks as well with a work force of 100 men and 25 women.
A postcard view of Ansonia Clock Factory, Brooklyn, New York, 7th and 8th Aves. and 12th and 13th Sts. "Largest Clock Factory in the World"
A postcard view of Ansonia Clock Factory, Brooklyn, New York, 7th and 8th Aves. and 12th and 13th Sts. "Largest Clock Factory in the World"
1880 – Misfortune strikes again when the New York factory burns down. The cause of the fire is reportedly an explosion caused by leaking gas. The New York Times reported: "all that remained of the factory was the burned and blackened walls." The loss is reported to be $750,000 with only $250,000 insured.
1881 – The New York factory is rebuilt on the same site.
1883 – The Ansonia, Connecticut factory is closed. All administrative and manufacturing operations are moved to New York. By this time Ansonia had sales offices in New York, Chicago and London.
1886 – By now more than 225 different clock models are being manufactured. The prosperous and debt free Ansonia Clock Company reports having an inventory worth $600,000 and receivables valued at $250,000.
1904 – Ansonia adds inexpensive, non-jeweled watches to their line. Ansonia had produced an estimated 10 million of these by 1929.
1914 – The company is at its height. More than 440 different clock models are now available. In addition to a huge domestic sales volume, clocks were exported in large quantities to Australia, New Zealand, Japan, China, India and eighteen other countries.
1915 to 1920 – Sales volume drops as the effects of WWI and stiff competition from other clock companies begins to take its toll. In the early 1900's Ansonia's line of novelty clocks became their biggest sellers. However, as competition for the novelty clock market grew ever stronger, the company attempted to maintain their market share by undercutting their competitors' prices. This strategy proved financially disastrous. By failing to maintain a realistic profit margin the company took on increasing debt, all the while failing to curb the competition in the niche they once dominated. By 1920, the number of clock models offered in their catalogs had dropped to 136. Their formerly popular black iron mantel clocks, china cased clocks and statue clocks were all discontinued.
1926 – Ansonia sells it five story Brooklyn warehouse.
1927 – The number of different Ansonia clock models offered for sale drops to 47.
1929 – The company goes into receivership a few months before the stock market crash. The machinery and dies were sold to Amtorg, an American trading organization acting as the principal importing and exporting agent for Soviet Russia. An October 10, 1929 news story in the Appleton Post Crescent of Appleton, Wisconsin, mentions the event in an article titled "Soviet Russia Is Good Customer of U.S. Businessmen – Purchases Four Times Above Pre-War Acale and Still Going Up." The article begins:
"American goods and manufacturing, engineering and building talent continue to pour into Russia with increasing volume. Russia 's five year plan of economy and industrial expansion is being revised ambitiously…A check of the facts and figures seems to indicate that Russia is determined to build up her whole economic structure with American parts."
The article continues with the mention of the Ansonia Clock Company as one of its purchases:
"(Russia) has just bought a clock factory from the Ansonia Clock Company of Brooklyn which will be moving to Russia to manufacture a million alarm clocks and half a million wall clocks a year."
The deal included sending former Ansonia employees to Moscow for up to 18 months set up the equipment and train Russian workers, giving birth to Russia's industrial mass production of mechanical timepieces.
The Lima (Ohio) News gave this account in a March 12, 1931 news report:
"…there came an order to supply the Soviet union with men and machines to make watches and clocks, neither of which products ever had been manufactured there. Representatives of Amtorg went to the Ansonia Clock Company in Brooklyn and to the Duber Hampden Watch Company of Canton, Ohio, and bought them lock, stock and barrel. Then they hired most of the skilled employees of the plants to go to Russia and operate the familiar machines. These have been installed in a new, many-windowed building in Moscow, where Russian apprentices are beginning to master the trade."
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Dr. Christopher Powell
Mae'r cynnwys hwn ar gael yn Saesneg yn unig.
Christopher Powell, who has died from a brain tumour aged 70, was a lecturer in architecture for more than 30 years.
Born and educated in south Gloucestershire, Chris followed his father's career and graduated in 1964 with a degree in architecture from Bristol University. He chose not to join the family practice and instead took a post at the Ministry of Public Buildings and Works, then spent time with various agencies and practices, including Wilson and Womersley, working on housing developments in the south-east.
During this period, the historical and social dimensions of his subject became an increasing attraction. After completing a master's thesis on local authority housing in 1972, Chris moved into academia as a lecturer at the Welsh School of Architecture, in Cardiff. While there, he pursued new areas related to the economics of building and design. He was instrumental in the establishment of the Construction History Society and was for many years the joint editor of its journal. The strands of his research were brought together in the book An Economic History of the British Building Industry, 1815-1979. He also wrote a history of the Welsh School of Architecture, published in 2009.
Away from university life, Chris had many interests. A pile of books, often hefty biographies of artists, authors and politicians, was always to hand, and he delighted in sending amusing postcards and cartoons to family and friends. A keen cyclist, he completed several long distance jaunts around the country, most notably Land's End to John O'Groats, which was achieved not long after heart surgery.
Painting and drawing were passions which gave an effective expression of his familiarity with building styles and forms. This knowledge also came to the fore when travelling around the countryside in search of an isolated church, an unusual cottage or an old inn. In the last case, "Powell's law" on the age of pubs would lead to a declaration that at least 100 years should be deducted from any claimed age.
Whoever he was with, Chris was an ideas man who enjoyed nothing better than debating a new finding or piece of research in diverse fields from archaeology to politics.
He is survived by his wife, Pam, whom he married in 1963, and his daughter, Jo, and son, Alex.
- Mike Anson, on www.guardian.co.uk


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Suzuki Endurance Racing Team has won the 2011 FIM World Endurance Championship after a close finish at today's final round in Qatar.
With a depleted two-rider team of Vincent Philippe and Anthony Delhalle following a mid-week injury of third rider Daisaku Sakai – who turned up to support his team – the duo brought the GSX-R1000 home in third place overall in the eight-hour race at Losail to clinch it's 11th title ahead of closest rivals BMW Motorrad France 99, who finished just ahead of the French team in second.
After qualifying in fourth position, SERT's Philippe grabbed the sprint to the lead on the opening lap ahead of Yamaha Racing France GMT 94 iPhone, BMW and Monster Yamaha YART. But the lead changed hands frequently during the opening four hours after which Yamaha made its position a permanent one at the head of the 26-rider field to secure victory with 231 laps completed.
From there on, the Suzuki team made good use of pit stops and with consistent lap times – and a faultless performance by the GSX-R1000 Superbike – played a tactical race to ensure that it stayed ahead of the BMW team on points; BMW entered the fifth and final race nine points adrift of SERT in the Championship standings.
The only significant position change was at the seven-and-a-half hour mark when SERT pitted, dropping the team back into third position, but with less than 50 seconds separating the three top teams, it was a well-timed manoeuvre that helped seal Suzuki's success again at the top-level of World Endurance racing.
Qatar Results: 1 Yamaha France GMT 94 iPhone (Yamaha) 231 laps, 2 BMW Motorrad France 99 (BMW) – 30.134 seconds, 3 SERT (Suzuki GSX-R1000) – 49.023 seconds, 4 Monster Yamaha YART (Yamaha) – 1 lap, 5 Honda TT Legends (Honda) – 4 laps, 6 YMES Folch Endurance (Yamaha), 7 DGS Sport (Yamaha), 8 Motors Events Bodyguard (Suzuki GSX-R1000), 9 QERT (Suzuki GSX-R1000), 10 MCS Racing iPhone (Suzuki GSX-R1000).


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Title : Jackson
Author : Elaine May
Genre : Romance
20 years after Joshua and Isla started their happily ever after their son Jackson now has the chance to follow in his parent's foot steps but with his own brand of happily ever after or will he?
Kitty grew in what others would think was a normal loving home, only the closet people to her knew the truth. Not just a Daddy's girl but Jackson's girl.
Kitty and Jackson were the best of friends from day one until one day they started to become so much more until one day Kitty woke in a nightmare.
Some times two people know they are meant to be together and form a bond that even time can't brake but fate once again decides to intervene.
Elaine May is my Author name. I live in the South West of England with my two beautiful daughters and yummy hubby. I love reading dark and twisted tales that mess with your head. I love to travel and spending time with my family. My dream is for people to like what i've written and hopefully get to go to a book signing event as an author.


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While reading the chapter on SL-Aus infamous series of 94-95 series in "The One Who Will", my brain hit the F5 key to Ponting's debut. He entered the scene 5 years after Sachin did and has managed to catch upto 90% of Sachin's batting performance in tests. He leads him on the catches front by a decent number 65+.
I do hate the guy from the bottom of my heart but looking at the statistics and his batting over the years I can't but admire his prowess. It's not often you can compete with a current player who has had a 5 year head-start.
Until Nov 2008, Punter was a mere 2 centuries behind Sachin but since then Sachin has raced ahead, increasing the difference to 9. I doubt Punter can make up that difference considering his form and the fact that if he loses the Ashes at home this year, he will most probably not make it to the test side again.
Inspite of the above and my hatred, I will continue to remain in a little awe of this man – for managing to almost catch up with GOD on-field.
Sehwag is the player in the current crop who might come close to these two; provided he lasts another 5-6 years and continues to play in the fashion he is playing today. By the very nature of his game, he looks good to make the most in tests than the shorter versions. The less we make a fuss about his careless attitude and not expect him to play the waiting game, the better it will be.
India finally managed to get SL all out this series. My belief that Bhajji has been an overrated bowler stands affirm.
There is nothing more exhilarating than watching Sehwag whack the ball out of the ground without moving his feet:-), there is nothing more enticing than watching GOD play his trademark drives and flicks and there is nothing more heart-wrenching than watching Dravid get out LBW in 2 consecutive matches on tracks where he should've devoured the bowling:-(


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